The Official Greg Jbara Love Thread! PART 4. CELEBRATING 1 YEAR OF LOVIN'!!- Page 142

[Elphaba984]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 7:36pm

wow! i believe it that they have to be there early. making sure all the wigs look all pretty and what not. thanks for the info. though. that's awesome you got to see that.

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 7:59pm

Let's have a party.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 8:09pm

keg?

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 8:12pm

Greg.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 8:16pm

A Greg keg?

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:17pm

You betcha!

[BluCat500]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:18pm

crepe paper?

[Dre2387]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:31pm

greag keg stand? huh?

shootin, glad you had a great time.

and yes, I did tell Meg she had to return. hehe

well, i had an interesting day. I partied last night till 3am then got up at 8am and went to my house. My dad and I left from there to pick up my mom and grandparents at the airport, dropped them off at their house then we came home. my mom gets a phone call almost 10 minutes after we get home and it's her cousin, saying that her father (my great-uncle) died. So we (my mom and I) got back into the car and went to her cousin's house and stayed there for a while then went to my grandparents house to break the news to my grandfather (he was the older brother of my great uncle). He took it well. then I came back here to Drew. hard day.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:33pm

I saw DRS today. Laura's last performance.

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:47pm

Aww, I love me some Laura. Fantastic voice.

And in response to the crepe paper, only if we get glitter.

[Elphaba984]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:23pm

hehe... i love me some laura. yes i agree she is amazing.

and GLITTER! yes! i'm all for the glitter!

Hi Dre... see i returned!

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 11:29pm

*makes an appearance*

[SirLiir]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 3:02am

I am so sad to see Laura leave ; ; I am especially sad that I was unable to attend. How did she do, Amanda?

[cserannie]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 10:36am

I am so sad that this wonderful perios of our life is over soon...it was great. A year ago we were totally freaked out whether DRS would won the Tony or not...it was a great time. Than the first tears came out in January when John left and now, the whole cast...ahh, I hate that situation...but Brian D'arcy James will make me happy I hope (right Kerrie)?

And there will be your radio show from September, right Dre? Just to bring back life to normal

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 1:51pm

I know Annie. Joe leaving was a sad day too...and considering how great we were and how much fun we had for Laura, I wish I could have done the same thing for Joe.

Ryan, I wondered where you were, I thought you said you were going.

Okay...I wrote that for the reaction of people being shocked at my short post...that didn't happen, but still...I'm typing up the long one now.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 2:15pm

Okay. I didn't want to deal w/ the lotto, so I just bought a rear mezz ticket like a week ago.

I went up to my seat, and saw some people I recognized-some who have seen the show more than me. One was up w/ me, having lost lotto. The mezz was sadly empty--only section 3 was filled--even the front mezz was half-filled in sections 2 and 4. Anyway, we were gonna move down, but the usher called us over, and put us in...rear mezz row B? random. Anyway, other friends joined.

Anyway, so the show started. It was so great. We quietly clapped Laura's entrance. Then we clapped much louder when she was introduced in the song--Jonathan proceeded to grab her breasts, she and we cracked up a lot.

Then What Was A Woman To Do. They pointed out to me that Rak makes hysterical faces as soon as she comes out, and we all laughed together. You guys should look out for that next time you see the show.

Then Laura came down as the usher. We cheered some more. She began to point to the second mezz, then flinched, looked around for a split second, and changed her "pointing" to us, and we all laughed.

Jason has a new snort he does. Funny.

Great Big Stuff started the 4 of us doing some mouthing/dancing along. FUN.

Jason's really coming into his own as Freddy. He does some of his own dancing, and phrasing and stuff. I'm proud; he's even better than the last time I saw him.

Pryce is much better at Give Them What They Want now. The beginning keeps up w/ the...non-beginning of the show.

I can't tell you how much I missed Sara! She was soo great, even better than I remember. I missed her screams, and just the energy and excitedness she brings to the character. Her and Jonathan work together GREAT. They have a lot of fun. I missed Sara's dancing, and screaming and kicking legs and singing and everything. She really is one-of-a-kind in this role. I love her!

Jason put more energy into the beef jerky segment than I've ever seen him do. Oh and Jonathan took a while to wiggle his butt in front of the mirror.

Ruprecht was great of course. Not quite as great as Jonathan and Norbert, but Jason was still very good. Did the licking and the new humping, but Jonathan didn't crack up. Jonathan's just getting cookier and it's great. Jason again came more into his own, adding some of his own dance steps that worked well.

Rachel was fantastic as always. It was definitely her strongest Here I Am. She's more comfortable with the role--silly and excited, and I still love her.

Jonathan gave a whole new wacky take on Shiffhausen. Instead of jumping in...he...stomped in...like a toy soldier. He went more out with the feather(I typed this up last night and wrote shower instead of feather...very odd). Jason
especially seemed to do a great ow into yodel. Then after Jonathan did the whole violin thing he started tipping over, spinning his head, looking like he realized he was crazy, right before Jason said "I guess that's that."

Ooh, the More We Dance was fun. We were all dancing and Jonathan did more crazy moves. Laura came in w/ the bar, doing her own dancing, which we cheered. She
did some shaking vodka dances and screamed w/ us at the end.

Lucie was fine--didn't strike me as similar to Joanna, especially great, or especially bad. It's probably still early and I think she just needs some more time to really get a feel for the part. Again, she wasn't bad, just...I can't think of much to say. She was
good.

So finally curtain calls came. As usual, I was the first up. We cheered really loud. Laura choreographed 4 blown kisses to us 4 beats in the curtain call music. Finally...someone pushed her a bit forward, and Jason grabbed her and brought her to center stage. We screamed more, then the curtain went down. I was disappointed, but apparently ensemble members don't get announcements/speeches. That sucks.

At the stage door, Laura talked to us for a while. She was so appreciative that we came and told us how awesome we were in the audience. She said the cast was saying that "her people" were here. She said when the curtain went down, the whole cast sang Happy Trails and she cried. Awww! . She said it was fun today--like Jonathan touching her breasts(she said everyone gets special treatment on their last days) but she really began to feel sad at the end.

She said this is an awful week for everyone, so she wasn't too worried about today's attendance, but that summer attendance would be very important. At one point she folded her lip, and I went into the usher face. I told her that, and she was like OMG that's so funny you realized that--I said no, it's sad. She said people tell her she makes that face all the time--Holly said it's a Lauraism. She said she was terrified when Jason pulled her to the center--she tried to hide. Umm...we gave her flowers. She said the cast was going out to celebrate her...again...aww.

Umm...aww, I don't think I can remember anything else we discussed. (or if we did). She kept thanking us profusely. We all finally hugged. I'll really miss her. It was a bittersweet day.

I guess I'll very briefly mention Saturday. I met Miss Traci for the first time.
Then Traci won the Q lotto(woow). I got a full-price rear orch ticket for $30. Love the Q. The new cast is good--I missed Barrett(who was out)--Howie wasn't as cute, but was good, especially as Rod the end--I missed Jordan, but it was great to see Rick and Natalie again.

And then we headed over to DRS. We waited on the stage, then Greg came. He went around to everyone, and he started to say nice to see you again, but I interrupted and said it's nice to meet him. Everyone laughed. And then he was like have you met Ali? I was like Ali Ali? Miss Ali was there too! He gave a big tour, and I was the quietest I've ever been. It was HARD. But I did get to go back down to the pit again. Ali and I had a moment. That's all I'll say--let others have a chance at long posts.

Updated On: 6/6/06 at 02:15 PM

[Dre2387]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 2:55pm

that is awesome!

and yes annie, sad times have come and gone. But my radio show will be back in September (not sure what day yet).

Mamie, are you coming on the 23rd?


look at what I just found! *tear*

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/100097.html

thay are both going to be presenters and playbill says that Norbert is doing a film now. I think they mean mini-series

Updated On: 6/5/06 at 02:55 PM

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 3:01pm

Got my tickets. ROw A.

Also have them for the 23rd.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 3:39pm

Yup Dre, Mamie is coming...front row right next to me. I'm between Mamie and Sarah, and we all got tickets separately! Go figure.

I'm front row mezz row A for the 16th. Figured it was worth it to be in front row mezz than orch, which may even be the better view, for the $40 it saved me.

[SirLiir]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 4:04pm

I wanted to go very bad Amanda but I had to pack for my trip to Phoenix tomorrow. That plus I needed to help friends with junk completely ruined my day and I just could not make it to the city on time for the show or stage dooring I have to send her flowers now! I hope she will rock in her next role
And..its official. Norbert and John are gone July 16th. What a sad week with three of the best performers leaving. Poor DRS...

I'll post from Phoenix tomorrow guys. See ya then!

[Dre2387]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 4:18pm

yes! I will see the famous Mamie!

damn you front row people!

Updated On: 6/5/06 at 04:18 PM

[starletta8]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 5:06pm

ETA: OK, so I didn't see the earlier post with the Playbill article. I blame my headache.

I think it's really classy that Jonathan is presenting at the Tonys, despite the fiasco.

And Dre, you may want to edit your last couple of posts. I wouldn't even imply things... I love this thread too much to see it deleted.
Updated On: 6/5/06 at 05:06 PM

[BluCat500]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 5:28pm

It won't get deleted...

[Malki5]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 5:36pm

You guys are making me so jealous because I can't be there on the 16th or the 23rd.

Just kidding! I can't wait to hear all of the reports from both shows.

[Dre2387]

Posted: 6/5/06 at 5:46pm

it won't starletta, but I edited them anyway.

Malki, you'll be getting tons!

look at this:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=10135

I was offered the position of ass. stage manager for this, but I had to turn it down cause of my internship at Shakespeare Theatre of Nj at Drew. damn!

Updated On: 6/5/06 at 05:46 PM